Jiří Pernes (born 4 July 1948 in Svitavy) is a

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historian. From 1984 to 1990, he was the director of the Historical Museum in

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(Austerlitz), and from 1990 to 1992, he was director of the

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in Brno. In 2011, he directed the

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. Jiří Pernes held lectures at

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the se ...

in Brno and at

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem ( cs, Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, abbreviated as UJEP) is a public university in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic. The institution was established on 28 Se ...

. He now works in the Institute for Contemporary History at the

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in Brno. He wrote many books and papers about Moravian,

and

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history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2010, he was dismissed from his position as director of the

after allegations that he had plagiarized large portions of his 1997 book about

Emanuel Moravec Emanuel Moravec (; 17 April 1893 – 5 May 1945) was a Czech army officer and writer who served as the collaborationist Minister of Education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1942 and 1945. He was also chair of the Board of T ...

from another person's doctoral dissertation. Pernes said that he had never knowingly copied the work of others.

References

Selected works

* ''Spiklenci proti Jeho Veličenstvu aneb Historie tzv. spiknutí Omladiny v Čechách'', Praha 1988 * ''Život plný nepřátel aneb Život a smrt Františka Ferdinanda d'Este'', Praha 1995 * ''Habsburkové bez trůnu'', Praha 1995 * ''Pod moravskou orlicí aneb Dějiny moravanství'', Brno 1996 * ''Maxmilián I. Mexický císař z rodu Habsburků'', Praha 1997 * ''Až na dno zrady. Emanuel Moravec'', Praha 1997 * ''Pod Habsburským orlem. České země a Rakousko-Uhersko na přelomu 19. a 20. století'', Praha 2001, 2006 * ''Takoví nám vládli. Komunističtí prezidenti Československa a doba, v níž žili'', Praha 2003 * ''František Josef I. Nikdy nekorunovaný český král'', Praha 2005 * ''Komunistky. S fanatismem v srdci'', Praha 2006 * ''Krize komunistického režimu v Československu v 50. letech 20. století'', Brno 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pernes, Jiri 1948 births Living people 20th-century Czech historians Masaryk University alumni Academic staff of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem People from Svitavy Historians of the Czech lands 21st-century Czech historians